The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There are topics which are common to men and women. I think that if a woman speaks of oppression, of misery, she… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I consider it almost antifeminist to say that there is a feminine nature which expresses itself differently, that a woman speaks her… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her;… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Men create their own gods and thus have some slight understanding that they are self-fabricated. Women are much more susceptible, because they… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
“You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology, psychoanalysis, and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
“Magari mi troverai ridicola, ma mi disprezzerei se non osassi esserlo mai” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
